World of Warcraft

[Spriggan]

blizzard has said that e-mails are being sent in batches and could take as much as 2 days to go out.

[Prometheus]

I also just went to their forums and the folks from Blizzard are looking into a problem. Apparently none of the comcast account people have gotten their beta emails. They may have been filtered. Annoying, that, isn't it?

[Spriggan]

well I doubt its many, there are over 600 people allready in beta.  That's a huge amount.

[Spriggan]

I'm ressurecting this thread since I'm in the Beta.  Blizzard is realy on to something with this game.  They're taken away the annoying wait time (by eating food) and made crafting easy and fun.  I never thought I'd enjoy wandering around collecting herbs to make potinos with.  Since there's are umpting sites covering WoW I'm not going to bother posting much here unless I find something cool.  Same goes with Screenshots.  

But If you want to know something (becasue you can't find it on another site or just don't care to go look) ask away I'll answer/explain the best I can.  Also if you request a SS I'll try and get it for you.  Its nice being in a Beta with no NDA.

Oh and just FYI i've got 3 characters right now, all level 7:

Troll Rouge (so far my favorite, you can pickpocked enemy humaniods!)
Nightelf Druid
Undead Warlock

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

what did you end up naming the troll? Did you go with Grog? or that lame one Brandon recommended?

[Spriggan]

Went with Grokkaksha.

Thought I'd mention a few cool things.

Like when you type come common words into the chat your character will automaticaly do an emote.  So words like: hi, hello, thanks, thank you, bye, ect.

Also crafting is pretty intresting in that it's very easy to raise it I've only failed twice.  What you do is used earned skillpoints to lean the trade (this ranges from 5-10 sp) and you'll be limited on how high you can raise the skill (usaly to level 50).  Then to advance past that you have to spend more skill points (adverage is 50) and so on.  After makeing it to level 10 I've earned about 35-40 skill points.

Oh ya, the Orc capital city is freaking awsome.  They realy need to give you a map for it.  I keep on getting lost its so huge.

[Spriggan]

I know I said I wouldn't post many screenshots but this is a funny one (with an explination).  The /dance macro is hilarious, it's a mix of disco and linedanceing.  The screen shot is of a dance I've dubbed my victory dance where he stays in that positions and just moves his hips like an Elvis dance.

And here are a few of the orc capital since it's so cool looking.

www.monkeyslothstudio.com/pictures/WoWScrnShot_062804_020921.jpg

www.monkeyslothstudio.com/pictures/WoWScrnShot_062804_025412.jpg

[Prometheus]

That 24-hour clock is hitting us hard here. I'm assuming all the screens were taken at night?

[Spriggan]

Ya the two troll pics were at night.  The human one was in the morning sometime.

[Spriggan]

ok, this isn't good. I just spent the past 2+ hours fishing!  FISHING!  That's just wrong.

[Tage]

Did you enjoy it?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

the real question is, was it as good for you as it was for the fish?

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Did you catch a fish, or did the fish catch you?

[Spriggan]

Actual yes, I did enjoy it.  Not only did I catch fish (duh) but other things (crates from cargo ships that have stuff in them or message in a bottle that has spells).   And I would just sell what I got to other players.

So I made a lot of cash doing it.

[JP Dogberry]

Ok, now I want to play this game. I have an unhealthy amount of joy from games featuring fishing. Mainly because I enjoy it in real life, but I'm really bad at the simple things like keeping the line untangled and tying knots. Otherwise, I'd just like to do it and relax. So I like games that allow me to go fishing.